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This thread is full of sources and resources, both for roleplaying and things that we have drawn from to build this setting. If you have ideas for any others, please let us know!

Historical Resources/Inspirations

Books

“A Distant Mirror: A Calamitous History of the Fourteenth Century”, Barbara Tuchman
“A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons”, Geoffrey Hindley
“The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England”, Ian Mortimer
“In the Shadow of the Sword”, Tom Holland
“Montaillou”, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
“Beowulf”, author unknown, trans. Seamus Heaney
“The Canterbury Tales”, Chaucer
“Gawain and the Green Knight”, author unknown.
“Nibelungenlied”, author unknown.
“The Song of Roland”, author unknown, trans. Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff
“Digenes Akritas”, author unknown, trans. Elizabeth Jefferies
“The Mabinogion”, authors unknown, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest
“Piers Plowman”, William Langland
“The Book of the City of Ladies”, Christine de Pizan, trans. Rosalind Brown-Grant
“Pearl”, the Gawain Poet (?), trans. Sophie Jewett
"The Steel Bonnets: The story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers" George MacDonald Fraser
"Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies" Ian Mortimer
"The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer Ruler of England 1327-1330" Ian Mortimer

Articles

“Feud and the State in Late Anglo-Saxon England”, Paul Hyams, Journal Of British Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan., 2001
“The Uses of Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and Its Neighbours”, C. P. Wormald, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, vol. 27, 1977
“A Sketch of the Early Development of English Civil Law as Displayed in Anglo-Saxon Law” Hampton L. Carson, Journal of the American Institute of Law and Criminology, vol. 6, no.5 Jan., 1916
“Dragons in Twentieth-Century Fiction”, Sandra Unerman, Folklore, vol. 113, No. 1, Apr., 2002

Podcasts

The British History Podcast
The History of Rome
Stuff You Missed In History Class
The Ancient World

Online

Medieval Demographics Made Easy (or, WTF Pern doesn’t even work argh)
World-building rants
Responsibility in world-building
Women warriors of the fourteenth century
Women’s headgear
Medieval children
Swords and daggers in Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Swords
Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy
The Akritai
Halving feast costs
What life was like for an executioner's family in the middle ages
World-building
Medieval Armour